[souenzzo]

Windows 98 takes ~200Mb after a clean install Windows 95 takes ~50Mb after a clean install

[cyberax]

I remember paring down Win98 to 17Mb. And pretty much everything still worked!

[ryao]

I remember hearing about people doing that around the time that windows 98 was still current. It was really impressive.

At the time, the idea of an operating system using a gigabyte of space was a fantasy to most people. Now, I wonder when Microsoft Windows will pass the terabyte threshold.